Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Trust
Core
Building specialized ML models, AI agents, and agentic capabilities to detect abuse, automate trust decisions, and protect the Airbnb community from fraud and safety risks.
Role type
Senior IC machine learning engineer (trust & safety, agentic AI)
Builds
Production ML pipelines, autonomous AI agents, and evaluation harnesses for trust and safety use cases
Domain
Trust and Safety, Fraud Detection, Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Python, LLMs and GenAI, agentic frameworks, orchestration, ML pipelines (batch/real-time), model evaluation, gradient boosted trees, neural networks, transformers, deep learning, TensorFlow, PyTorch
Preferred skills
Multimodal models (vision, document, speech), Trust and Risk domain experience
Technologies
Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LLMs, agentic frameworks
Responsibilities
Frame and prototype ML solutions for ambiguous problems; design and productionize end-to-end ML pipelines; build and improve abuse behavior detection; design and launch AI agents for autonomous trust decisions; build benchmarks and evaluation harnesses; develop specialized models using LLMs; write and ship scalable, testable code; partner with defense teams to validate solutions and quantify impact.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC